(n.) The state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity; adaptation; suitableness.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I find it very congenial to live in the natural beauty of the place I have in Connecticut.
(2) Yes, Scottish leader Ruth Davidson was congenial and popular, but she was still, you know, a Tory.
(3) They are "very congenial, caring people," said Pieters-James.
(4) Additionally, it is suggested that the conditioning analysis of tolerance is congenial with a current view of habituation, and there may be a similar associative basis for the response decrement to both endogenous and exogenous iterative stimulation.
(5) Paget dramatized this clear distinction between the intrinsic properties of the cancer cell and the properties of the host when he expanded on the analogy between tumors and plants: "When a plant goes to seed, its seeds are carried in all directions; but they can only live and grow if they fall on congenial soil."
(6) The active transport system is congenial to fluorescine - Km = 4-10(-5) M, which renders even small amounts of this substance to be quickly removed from the milieu.
(7) The medium mountain ranges have a congenial climate in connection with its abundant forests.
(8) She said she was enjoying the kindness and congeniality of the crowd, an antidote, she said, to the negativity of the last 18 months.
(9) Physical and mental activity, good health, adequate means, well considered accommodation, an absorbing interest, congenial company and a philosophy which encompasses mortality are among the assets and attitudes which may promote successful retirement.
(10) Another showing for Sandra Bullock film Miss Congeniality on Channel Five had 1.2 million viewers and a 5% share between 9pm and 11.10pm.
(11) Face set with the look of determined congeniality, glass of orange juice in hand, Young (who generally cares so little about "promotion" that he didn't bother to include any songs from the-then new On the Beach in Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 74 tour repertoire) braced himself to face the press, a few at a time in manager Elliot Roberts' Sunset Strip office, a fortnight before the release of Tonight's the Night .
(12) He said mixed classrooms were “far more congenial”, and he had “much preferred” being head of a school where children of both sexes were taught.
(13) The bloody creeks of the Niger delta may yet seem strangely congenial.
(14) The well-known autosomal-recessive inheritance of the disease was masked by a pseudodominant appearance, reflecting the striking frequency of congenial marriages.
(15) In person, in private, he displays a congenial persona not always evident at the dispatch box.
(16) In perfectly bucolic and culturally congenial surroundings, Hawthorne's imagination took flight and his pen dashed over the page, producing 21 stories, many of which, including "Rappaccini's Daughter", would be collected in 1846 as Mosses from an Old Manse.
(17) A very congenial silence for the CBI and other business lobby groups, who can urge ministers to cut benefits for the poor harder and faster, knowing their members are still getting their bungs.
(18) Even colleagues who disagree violently with his view of the world concede that Wolfowitz was far more congenial than the usual Washington apparatchik.
(19) These achievement-congenial conditions characterize entrepreneurial business and, among those occupations traditionally filled by women, teaching.
(20) On a personal level, Neuberger is giving up a comfortable berth at the law courts in the Strand, where he can choose to sit with the most congenial of his many fellow judges, in exchange for a much smaller 12-judge court in Westminster, physically isolated from the rest of the judiciary and where tensions are never far below the surface.
Photogenic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to photogeny; producing or generating light.
Example Sentences:
(1) Experimental photogenic epilepsy attained by creating GPIE in the EGB with the aid of TT, is proposed as a model for studying the mechanism of epileptogenesis and testing the efficacy of anticonvulsive drugs.
(2) By virtue of being young, photogenic and not visibly unhinged, Ivanka and Jared have been painted as the great moderators – people with allegedly progressive views on things like women’s rights and climate change, who can temper the effects of Trump’s administration.
(3) Three ctDNA-coded proteins, the large subunit of ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase, the apoprotein of the P700-chlorophyll a-protein complex, and the "photogene" were identified.
(4) It was a reference to the coach's very public criticism of Daley when he said the Chinese train three times harder than Daley and compared him to Anna Kournikova, the equally photogenic Russian tennis player who never won any major titles.
(5) Northern blot experiments using genomic DNA hybridization probes indicated that phycobiliprotein mRNAs were absent in the dark, whereas cells exposed to light contained two allophycocyanin mRNA transcripts, 1.4 and 1.6 kilobases in length, and one phycocyanin mRNA transcript, 3.0 kilobases in length, providing evidence that phycobiliproteins are encoded in photogenes which are only transcriptionally active in the light.
(6) Misguided emphasis on the most extreme and photogenic radical right groups also plays out in Hungary.
(7) The experimental results demonstrate an important role of specific and nonspecific factors in the pathogenesis of experimental photogenic epilepsy.
(8) Luminous cells of polynoid worm elytra have been examined by methods of electron microscopy, with special attention focused on the fine structure of photogenic grains.
(9) Politically astute, photogenic and backed by his father’s political machine, Biden was elected attorney general of Delaware with 52.6% of the vote.
(10) The photogenic epilepsy syndrome was induced by local tetanus toxin injection into the lateral geniculate blody (LGB) which caused the formation of a pathologically enhanced excitation.
(11) These days Medellín is more likely to make the news for yet another photogenic building.
(12) Advertising campaigns have immortalised his photogenic family, and his marriage to wife, Ricky, has lasted more than 50 years surviving reports of an affair with a longterm Ralph Lauren model in the 90s.
(13) The photogenic cells, termed photocytes, can be identified in histological sections by observation of 460 nm excited fluorescence and appear to have two components: varicosities and processes.
(14) In addition to all the organelles which can be found in nonluminescent epithelial cells of the elytra, numerous photogenic grains are contained in their cytoplasm.
(15) So much for the hopes that American television had of broadcasting, and the vast galleries at Peeble Beach of witnessing, another epic duel on America's most photogenic course between the best two players of the last decade or so.
(16) Most, but not all, photogene RNA pools reach a maximum size (after either 10, 20, or 44 h of illumination) and then fall to approximately preillumination levels.
(17) With the oculomotor activation, paroxysmal discharges were induced in 11 cases of photogenic epilepsy; 10 cases (91%) were of A-type (GPD was preceded by anterior spikes), and one case (9%) showed focal spikes over the right frontal area.
(18) Photogenic and, characteristically, a convincing fusion of art, engineering, craft, landscape and architecture, this confident building was ecstatically received.
(19) There is no doubt that her photogenic intervention on Sunday will work to her advantage domestically.
(20) With its striking images of skeletal reefs stripped of colour and life, coral bleaching offers photogenic evidence of our crumbling biodiversity, and has placed the plight of coral reefs higher on the world's consciousness.